Are You A Kosher Letter? Every Jew is a letter in the Torah; the question is, are you a kosher letter? The Torah tells us that 603,550 Jews came out of Egypt. Kabbalah proclaimed that there are six ...

A family joins others at the Milken Community High School to ink in a letter of a Torah scroll that was recovered from the Holocaust, remembering Shavuot, when the Torah first was given to the Jewish ...

Even though Erma Lipschultz has revered the Torah for as long as she can remember, nothing in her 92 years prepared her for the moment she helped create one. One Hebrew letter is all she wrote – one ...

‘When the Ark traveled forward, Moses said, ‘Rise up, O God, and scatter Your enemies, and let them that hate You flee before You.’ And when it rested [Moses] said, ‘Return, O God, unto the myriads of ...

The rise of a whole new profession of calligraphy artists, often with little or no connection with tradition, has meant a new approach to the aleph-bet. A Hebrew scribe – sofer stam – has a special ...

Repairing a Torah — the Jewish sacred scroll containing divine teachings — is no small feat. Simply reading passages from the text requires a ritual. The scroll is housed in an “ark,” an ornate ...